at is said about conditions relating to health and
about efforts made to correct all unfavorable conditions. The best
literature of our day, with regard to social needs, appears in the
reports of our public and private institutions and societies. Of
increasing value are the publications of the national government
printing office. Because it is no one's business to find out what
valuable material is contained in such reports, and because no
educational museum is comparing report with report, those who live
nearest to our health problems and who see most clearly the health
remedies, are not stimulated to give to the public their special
knowledge in an interesting, convincing way.

Teaching children how to find health lessons in public documents will
advance the cause of public ethics as well as of public health. At the
New York State Conference of Charities, of 1907, one official
complained that the physicians made no educational use of their
valuable experience for public education. He stated that a study of
medical journals and health articles in popular magazines revealed the
fact that the number of papers prepared by physicians in state
hospitals averaged one to a doctor for every five or six years of
service. This state of affairs is even more exaggerated in strictly
educational institutions. Columbia University has recently instituted a
series of lectures to be given by its professors to its professors, so
that they may have a general knowledge of the work being done in other
fields besides their own at their own university. This is equally
important for teachers and heads of departments in elementary schools.
It is now admitted by most educators that elementary schools and young
children present more pedagogical difficulties and pressing biological
problems than higher schools. If teachers and parents would realize
that their method of solving the health problems that arise daily in
the schoolroom and in the home would interest other mothers and
teachers, their spirit of cooeperation would soon be reflected in school
journals, popular magazines, and daily newspapers.

PART V. ALLIANCE OF HYGIENE, PATRIOTISM, AND RELIGION

CHAPTER XXXII

DO-NOTHING AILMENTS

"Men have died, from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not
for love"--_nor for work_. Work of itself never killed anybody nor made
anybody sick. Work has caused worry, mental strain, and physical
breakdown, only when men while wor